I Hopped Into A Coffee Shop / Coffee Shop Bop

About

I Hopped Into A Coffee Shop, also known as the Coffee Shop Bop, refers to a song made by TikToker SarahMaddack (@sarahmadbell) that's about hopping into a coffee shop and complimenting a woman on her cool pants despite having anxiety about it. The TikTok video and song had a polarizing effect, as in, viewers either loved it or despised it based on it being perceived as cringe but also an earworm. A TikTok trend became associated with the song in which TikTokers reenacted the original video by lip-dubbing the lyrics and mimicking SarahMaddack's movements. Many animations of the video surfaced using the app Frever as well as a sped-up version of the song.

Origin

On November 22nd, 2022, TikToker^[1] @sarahmadbell posted a video that was a musical skit that included her original song "Coffee Shop Bop." The video's premise was @sarahmadbell going to a coffee shop and seeing another woman with "cool pants" whom she wanted to compliment but felt awkward about doing so. Over the course of three months, the video received roughly 14.4 million plays and 1.5 million likes (shown below).

"I Hopped Into A Coffee Shop" Lyrics

The song's lyrics are:

I hopped into a coffee shop
And then my jaw dropped in shock
When I saw a girl who had cool pants.
They made me want to dance.
I started to advance to tell her
Until I hear a little voice say, "Stop!
You're gonna make it weird for everyone in here
And you're going to break her flow
So you better just not."
I said, "You're really dumb!"
And then she looked up and thought
That I was telling her that she was really dumb.
I started to explain and then I said, "I love your pants
And I was previously talking to my brain."
She said, "I understand.
I made this pair of pants by hand
And I believe that it is time for us to dance!"
And that is what we did.
We had a great time
And all because I'd given a stranger a compliment.

Spread

After the video's upload, on November 24th, 2022, TikToker^[2] @spicensassy posted a reanimation of the video using the app Frever, gaining roughly 7.4 million plays and 683,500 likes in three months (shown below, left). The Frever animation was then dueted by TikToker^[3] @sarahmadbell herself, gaining roughly 1.7 million plays and 88,300 likes in two months (shown below, right). Thereafter, various Frever animations of the video surfaced on the platform going into early 2023, such as one video posted by TikToker^[4] @lola_lolypoo on January 21st, 2023, that received roughly 14.9 million plays and 1.8 million likes in one month.

In February 2023, various reenactments and lip-dubs of the video surfaced online, snowballing the song into a viable trend predominantly perpetuated by female teenagers. An early example was uploaded on January 26th, 2023, by TikToker^[5] @gogoray26p2, earning roughly 660,400 plays and 102,900 likes in 18 days (shown below, left). On January 29th, 2023, Kim and North Kardashian's TikTok account uploaded an iteration, earning roughly 6.5 million plays and 713,000 likes in 15 days (shown below, right).

As the trend became larger, more satirical iterations surfaced in February 2023, such as one video from TikToker^[6] @itsyaboyaustin4 on February 8th, 2023, earning roughly 14.1 million plays and 3 million likes in five days (shown below).

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